{"id":16094,"date":"2016-01-06T12:11:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16094"},"modified":"2016-01-06T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:12:27","slug":"north-korea-claims-fully-successful-miniaturized-hydrogen-bomb-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16094","title":{"rendered":"North Korea claims fully successful \u2018miniaturized hydrogen bomb\u2019 test"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korea claims fully successful \u2018miniaturized hydrogen bomb\u2019 test<\/a><\/h3>\n
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North Korea has announced it has successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb following an \u201cartificial seismic event\u201d that has likely become the country\u2019s fourth known nuclear test.<\/div>\n
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In a\u00a0\u201cspecial and important\u201d<\/em>\u00a0announcement at noon, North Korean TV claimed that the country has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test at 10:00am local time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough the test conducted with indigenous wisdom, technology and efforts, the DPRK fully proved that the technological specifications of the newly developed H-bomb for the purpose of [the] test were accurate and scientifically verified the power of [the] smaller H-bomb,”<\/em>\u00a0the statement said.<\/p>\n

“It was confirmed that the H-bomb test, conducted in a safe and perfect manner, had no adverse impact on the ecological environment,”<\/em>\u00a0it added.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the\u00a0English bulletin from KCNA, North Korea’s central news agency<\/p>\n

10:51 PM – 5 Jan 2016<\/a>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0Winchester, NV, United States<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The announcement\u00a0followed the USGS detection of a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of a known Pyongyang nuclear site.<\/p>\n

The epicenter of the jolt was located 19 kilometers (12 miles) east-northeast of Sungjibaegam, Ryanggang Province, at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to preliminary data from the US Geological Survey (USGS).\u00a0Similar seismic activity in roughly the same area was recorded on February 12, 2013, prior to North Korea claiming its third successful underground nuclear test.<\/p>\n

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North Korea claims fully successful \u2018miniaturized hydrogen bomb\u2019 test North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u00a9 Kyodo \/ Reuters North Korea has announced it has successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb following an \u201cartificial seismic event\u201d that has likely become the country\u2019s fourth known nuclear test. In a\u00a0\u201cspecial and important\u201d\u00a0announcement at noon, North Korean TV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11526,11525,2006,11527],"class_list":["post-16094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bomb-testing","tag-hydrogen-bomb","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16096,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions\/16096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}